TECHNIQUE

HANDS ON EXPERIENCE
RECIPES FOR SCULPTING Clay Recipes Flubber Gooey-Gak Goop Recipe Paper Mache Paper Clay Play Dough Play Putty Salt Dough Silly Slime	GET TO KNOW THE ARTISTS ARTCYCLOPEDIA Chronological Listing of Sculptors	GET TO KNOW THE MATERIALS ArtLex dictionary Architecture Bronze Ceramics Clay Clay Body Glass Glaze Gold Greek Mask Marble Monument Plaster Roman Sculpture Silver Stone Age Textile Throwing Vessel

RELATED SITES

These sites provide you and your students with information and activities for the arts in 3 dimensions.

CeramicsWeb 3.0 The SDSU CeramicsWeb includes databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a variety of educational materials related to ceramics. The Artistic Heritage of Clay A unit from a high school ceramics course with a studio emphasis, enriched with content from art history, art criticism, and aesthetics. Greek and Roman Art at The Getty This virtual exhibition draws from art objects that appear in Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence, on display at the museum at the new Getty Center during its opening year. Weaving Granite With Jesús Moroles at The Getty Weaving Granite includes an online exhibition of Jesús Moroles's sculptures and a personal conversation between Moroles and Dr. McCarter of Getty Museum. Rodin Learn about Rodin and clay sculpting at this Explore Art art class on the Web. Donatello In this unit, Explore Art introduces the "founder of modern sculpture", sand sculpting, and a bit of history. Sculpture and Collage Several lessons and projects for kinder of all ages from KinderArt.

PROJECT BOX

PROJECT IDEAS
PAPER MACHE & PAPERCLAY Make a paper mache menagerie for your classroom ( so much safer than glass !) Dinosaur Bowl Puppet Penguin Turtles Piggy PaperClay Fish
SCULPTURES MADE FROM SIMPLE MATERIALS Lester Gaba  Soap Sculptor "In the 1920s, the lowly bar of soap officially emerged from the laundry room when a well-known consumer products company sponsored a soap-sculpting contest." Soap Carving Drywall Carving Box Sculpture PaperClay Sculpture Folk Art Walking Sticks Inuit Art Clay Heads Stocking Sculpture Clay Tile Paper Magical Mosaic Relief Foil Giant Stuffed Birds Scrap Wood Sculpture Shrunken Apple Heads Clay Rattles Gourd Bird Sculptures
MASKS "Masks encourage us to transform ourselves, and empower us to do so. They permit us to replace one reality with another."  From Masks by George Ulrich for Milwaukee Public Museum's LORE magazine. Face Plate Masks -- The Face Tells the Story
ORIGAMI Shape on shape and fold on fold Creates a world from simple mould. In what emerges my eye can see Bird or Beast or Geometry. ...John Smith from  Origami Fabric Origami Workshop Origami Diagrams Origami - Art for Kids paperfolding.com Travel to Oriland

INTERDISCIPLINARY IDEAS

Art can be a great motivational tool for learning any subject. Check out these art lessons that have been directly applied to other disciplines.

Topography of Your Face
Students explore the topography of their faces through the sense of touch, create a map of their face and paint a topographical portrait with color.

ARTSEDGE Kennedy Center
Teaching Materials focuses on the national art education standards and provides K-12 teachers with curriculum units, lesson plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teaching.

VKP multidisciplinary
Downloadable lesson plans, suggested artworks, and additional resources for use with standard high school curricula.